Tassie Gniady U. California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 email: tassie@umail.ucsb.edu

Areas of Interest

• Monstrosity
• Renaissance Literature
• Early Modern Natural Philosophy
• Ballads, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish
• Steam Punk
• Creative Writing

Current Projects and Publications

Dissertation: “Monstrously Female: Monstrous Femininity in Early Modern Literature.”
Committee: Patricia Fumerton (chair), Richard Helgerson, Robert Erickson, Anita Guerrini 

• “Do You Take This Hog-Faced Woman To Be Your Lawful Wedded Wife?”; forthcoming in Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800, eds. Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini, Ashgate Press.
• "The Pepys Ballad Archive: From Theory to Practice" with Patricia Fumerton, Simone Chess, and Kris McAbee; forthcoming MLA edition, Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives.
• “Facsimile Transcriptions of Early Modern Ballads”; forthcoming, Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
•Essay on Pepys’s “Tragedy” category and a selection of Tragedy ballads, for Early Modern Broadside Ballads edition.
•Book Review of Elizabeth Spiller’s Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580–1670 in Early Science and Medicine, 11, No. 2 (2006).

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Teaching Experience

Teaching Associate, English 193: Detective Fiction, Summer 2008.
Technical Director, Early Modern English Ballad Archive 1500-1800, June 2003-July2007.
Site Maintenance, Early Modern Center, January 2003-July 2007.
Teaching Associate, English 105B: Later Shakespear Plays, Summer 2006.
Early Modern Center Fellow, English Department, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
Teaching Assistant, Writing Program, September 2003-Spring 2004.
Research Assistant, Transcriptions Lab, Spring 2003.
Teaching Assistant, English 102, British Literature 1650-1800, Winter 2003.
Teaching Assistant, English 101, British Literature: Chaucer-1650, Fall 2002.